Re: Small change in packaging manual?

Le 30 juil. 2004, à 8:25, Daniel Macks a écrit :

> On Fri, Jul 30, 2004 at 02:57:50PM +0900, BABA Yoshihiko wrote:
>> On 2004/07/30, at 6:23, Mich?le Garoche wrote:
>>>>
>>>> %p, %P
>>>>
>>>> the prefix where Fink is installed, e.g. /sw. You must not use /sw,
>>>> as the user may have changed the location of Fink's installation. 
>>>> Use
>>>> %p instead.
>>
>> And it looks to some people that %p must not be /sw (I believe most
>> people understand it, though).
Sorry, it was obvious for me that we were in the context of packaging.

>>  Can you say like:
>>
>> the prefix where Fink is installed, e.g. /sw. Always use %p instead of
>> /sw whereever applicable, as the user may have changed the location of
>> Fink's installation.
>>
>> And it looks to some people that %p must not be /sw (I believe most
>> people understand it, though). Can you say like:
>>
>> Or am I too mouthful?
Never, and particularly in this case, where it seems strange to me that 
the warning appears in much of percents logically dependent of this 
(in)famous %p, but not in it.

> Several other percent-expansions are documented as "the [something],
> e.g. [default]. You must not assume that [default is always correct]".
> It might be a bit wordy, but it needs to drive home the point that
> assuming the default is always the case is a fatal mistake.
>
> So for %p/%P, how about "the prefix where Fink is installed, e.g. /sw.
> You must not assume all users have Fink installed in /sw; use %p to
> get the correct path."
Even better, I change it again.

Michèle
<http://micmacfr.homeunix.org>